https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Controversial pentecostalist pastor Åke Green has been barred from membership in Sweden's largest sobriety movement as a result of his views on homosexuals. https://www.thelocal.se/20080130/9819 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:48:00 +0100 9819 The Swedish Supreme Court has convicted four right-wing extremists under hate crime laws for distributing anti-gay pamphlets outside a school. https://www.thelocal.se/20060706/4266 Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:10:00 +0200 4266 When Pentecostalist pastor Åke Green courted international notoriety by referring in a sermon to homosexuality as a sexual abnormality and a tumour on the body of society, he can hardly have expected that he would turn his small home town, Borgholm, into a gay destination. https://www.thelocal.se/20060420/3595-2 Thu, 20 Apr 2006 18:56:00 +0200 3595-2 Four young men who distributed anti-gay propaganda outside a school have been freed by a Swedish appeals court, even though the court agreed that they were guilty of the crime of ‘agitation against a minority group.’ https://www.thelocal.se/20051214/2686-2 Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:40:00 +0100 2686-2 Åke Green, the Swedish pentecostalist pastor sentenced to one month in prison for a sermon in which he condemned homosexuality has been acquitted by the Supreme Court in Stockholm. https://www.thelocal.se/20051129/2590-2 Tue, 29 Nov 2005 11:35:00 +0100 2590-2 A sermon in which a Pentacostalist pastor said homosexuality was “a cancer on the body of society,” was the word of the Holy Spirit, Sweden’s Supreme Court was told on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.se/20051109/2462-2 Wed, 09 Nov 2005 19:51:00 +0100 2462-2 A high profile case that pitches Sweden's laws on protection of minority groups against those concerning freedom of speech began its final round in the Supreme Court on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.se/20051109/2456-2 Wed, 09 Nov 2005 12:50:00 +0100 2456-2 Swedish police have launched an investigation into whether former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke has committed "incitement to hatred against a minority group" in Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20051101/2398-2 Tue, 01 Nov 2005 10:42:00 +0100 2398-2 The fanatical American Baptist minister, Fred Phelps, is on his way to Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20050825/1961-5 Thu, 25 Aug 2005 17:32:00 +0200 1961-5 The Supreme Court trial of pentacostalist pastor Åke Green will begin on November 9th, according to a preliminary schedule. https://www.thelocal.se/20050822/1930-5 Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:46:00 +0200 1930-5 The Vatican has attacked Sweden, saying that religious expression in the country is threatened. https://www.thelocal.se/20050630/1689-2 Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:47:00 +0200 1689-2 The Swedish pastor sentenced to prison for a sermon that was said to spread hatred against gay people has had his conviction quashed on appeal, in a verdict that a Swedish gay rights group has called “disturbing”. https://www.thelocal.se/20050211/960-2 Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:01:00 +0100 960-2 The owner of a Christian website is facing prosecution for inciting hatred against homosexuals. The site, Bibeltemplet, contains a section called ‘Sodomania’. Prosecutors in Gothenburg say that the site contains articles and comments that threaten gay people. https://www.thelocal.se/20050125/889-2 Tue, 25 Jan 2005 16:07:00 +0100 889-2 A priest who was sentenced to one month in prison for making offensive remarks about gay people is appealing against the verdict, reigniting a debate that has pitted freedom of expression against the rights of minorities. https://www.thelocal.se/20050119/862-2 Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:46:00 +0100 862-2 The suffering of “filthy, faggot Swedes” in the South East Asia disaster was punishment from God for Sweden’s tolerant attitude toward homosexuality. This is how a website owned by an influential Christian extremist movement in Kansas has reported Swedes’ suffering in the tsunami disaster. https://www.thelocal.se/20050107/818-2 Fri, 07 Jan 2005 14:41:00 +0100 818-2